Moore’s ‘Where to Invade Next’ shows good ideas from Europe
Michael Moore has made the movie that everybody thinks about making after visiting Europe for the first time.
For many Americans, the mere concept of this documentary will be heretical.
Alas, the people who’d benefit most from seeing this movie will never see it.
The central gimmick of “Where to Invade Next,” which borders on silly, is that United States keeps getting into wars and getting nothing out of them, and so now, instead, Michael Moore will be invading countries on his own, with the idea of bringing something useful back home.
Apparently industry in Italy doesn’t collapse from this, and management and labor get along fine.
[...] Italians live a lot longer than they do in the United States, probably because they’re not overworked, overstressed and miserable.
[...] Moore goes to France and checks out the lunches being served to schoolchildren and high school kids.
In Iceland, they experienced a financial collapse and actually prosecuted the white-collar crooks responsible for it.
In Slovenia, college is free, and in Germany they’re facing their Nazi history and not sweeping it under the rug.
There is just something harsh in American life, something in our national personality going all the way back to de Toqueville and beyond.